The Amazon toolset has helped us grow our website painlessly and given us little to worry about in the way of reliability, dynamic load balancing, or involvement in the hosting ourselves. AWS has given GivenGain an invaluable opportunity to focus on its application; the ultimate prize for an online entity that lives and dies by its innovation and service.

GivenGain is a global leader in cloud-based activism and is based in Switzerland. It was founded in 2001 on the basis of a simple idea: “to enable global philanthropy by empowering individuals and nonprofits to break down the barriers between and within ourselves.” GivenGain is known for helping individuals raise money for their favorite causes and helping charities and nonprofits build strong and sustainable funding models.

After nine years of continuous growth, GivenGain’s initial web hosting solution presented reliability issues, and its web server and database were reaching the upper limits of their capacity to sustain the load.

The organization needed the ability to increase capacity in high-load situations and reduce it in periods of decreased load.